You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
In the forest
“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.
Konstantin Andreevich Ukhtomsky, The Small Winter Garden in the Apartments of Alexandra Fyodorovna from Types of Rooms in the Winter Palace, c 1870s, watercolor.
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
One hundred years ago this month, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was published. The novel epitomizes modernism’s drive to capture the fragmented texture of early twentieth-century life and to render psychological landscapes with clarity and nuance.
Read more about Virginia Woolf's contributions to modern literature from JSTOR Daily.
Image: Mrs. Dalloway (first edition, 1925), cover art by Vanessa Bell. Wikimedia Commons.
By the Deathbed (1893) by Edvard Munch
Period drama + Reading
NORTHANGER ABBEY (2007)
COLETTE(2018)
BRIGHT STAR (2009)
MR. MALCOLM'S LIST(2022)
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985)
EMMA. (2020)
BECOMING JANE (2007)
Stepping Stones / 臥龍橋
I hate my heart, as long as it is beating it echoes in silence of my madness and blinks in the darkness of my soul
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. Tacitus
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